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The Car-Free Guide to the 2026 Los Angeles Indie Bookstore Crawl
In the spirit of Nobody Drives in LA’s 2017 Los Angeles Train Pub Crawl,, the Car-Free Guide to the World Cup 2026, and Car-Free Guide to the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we bring you: The...
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Ask Silver Lake — Golden Age Silver Lake Gay Bars and Other Third Places
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The Nobody Drives in LA Guide to the World Cup 2026
Making sense of the 2026 World Cup is no easy task. For the first time ever, it’s being hosted in sixteen cities across three countries — Canada, Mexico, and the US. One of those cities is Los...
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Ask Silver Lake – The Enduring Legacy of Asian Americans in Silver Lake
If tasked with listing Los Angeles’s “Asian neighborhoods,” you’d probably first think of well-known immigrant enclaves like Chinatown, Koreatown, and Little Tokyo – or maybe less well-known ones like...
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California Fool’s Gold — Playa del Rey
A few weeks ago, I was part of a transit discussion at Frank Radio called Alternate Paths (with Lisa Kwon, Maylin Tu, Julia Beach, Greg Ruben, and Hunter Baoengstrum — check it out!). Afterward, one...
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Ask Silver Lake — The Glendale-Hyperion Project and the Bridges of Silver Lake
Glendale-Hyperion Viaduct, Los Angeles, California Postcard 1931 The iconic Victory Memorial Bridge (Glendale-Hyperion Viaduct), connecting Los Feliz and Silver Lake on the Los Angeles River’s west...
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Au revoir, Taix… or, more likely, Adieu
Taix will serve its last meal on 29 March 2026 – the birthday of famed post-Impressionist, Georges Seurat. I have always enjoyed my visits to Taix, whether for food, drinks, friendship, or to see...
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Happy Birthday “Los Angeles”; Land of History, Myths, Villages, and 19...
INTRODUCTION Screenshot of Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography‘s map of Los Angeles County and Southern Califonria Los Angeles was founded on this day, 18 February, in 1850. A majority of insufferable...
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Chinatowns, Soft Power, and the Lunar New Year
Happy Lunar New Year — the year of the Fire Horse! The Lunar New Year widely celebrated in Korea, Mongolia, Ryukyu, Taiwan, Tibet, and Vietnam… and historically, Japan. Although China is a diverse...
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No Enclave — New Zealander Los Angeles
New Zealand is a volcanic archipelago in the South Pacific. The remote land was notably the last major landmass to be settled by humans (about four centuries after Iceland). Although Australia is home...
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Music Biographies — Eddie Cantor
In the 2000s, Amoeba Music enlisted an army of writers and data entry people to work on an ambitious website that was meant to be a sort of combination of Allmusic, Apple Music, Discogs, Wikipedia,...
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Old Time Radio — The Fat Man Debuted Today, on 21 January, 1946
The Fat Man was a popular radio detective drama that debuted on this date (21 January) in 1946. It starred J. Scott Smart as the titular detective who, although best known as “the Fat Man,” was...
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No Enclave — Inuit Los Angeles
Inuit flags, clockwise from upper left: Nunavut, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), Nunatsiav, Invialuit, and Nunavik 7 November was International Inuit Day (Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᑉᓗᐊᓂ) and, back then. I got to...
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Ask Silver Lake – SB 79 and Silver Lake’s Historic Transit-Oriented Mid-Rises
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Music Biographies — Babasonicos
In the 2000s, Amoeba Music enlisted an army of writers and data entry people to work on an ambitious website that was meant to be a sort of combination of Allmusic, Apple Music, Discogs, Wikipedia,...
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Nobody Drives in LA Presents the Great, Car-Free, LA28 Olympic and Paralympic...
In 2028, Los Angeles will host the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It will be the third time Los Angeles has hosted the Switzerland-based International Olympic Committee‘s competition. It will also...
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Ask Silver Lake – Silver Lake’s Original Libraries
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Nobody Drives in LA — The T00b N00b Gr00p R1d3: E Line Edition
THE TUBE NEWB GROUP RIDE: E LINE EDITION INTRODUCTION A few months ago, Nobody Drives in LA asked our listeners to “ask us anything.” One of the respondents submitted: “What bus or train experience...
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Ask Silver Lake — Live Music Venues of Silver Lake, Present and Past
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The Semi-Tropic Spiritualist Association, with historian Eric Brightwell
Happy Spooky Season! Join me tomorrow, on 4 October from 13:00-14:00 in a presentation about the Semi-Tropic Spiritualists, their tract, and the Semi-Tropic Park. If you need a brief introduction. The...
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